Introduction

Henry David Thoreau Papers. In addition to being a writer, lecturer, and naturalist, Thoreau was at times a surveyor. The Concord Public Library has digitized Thoreau's land surveys (including one of Bronson Alcott's property).

Biography

Scharnhorst, Gary. "Kate Field on Thoreau." Kate Field (the likely model for Henry James's Henrietta Stackpole) was an early enthusiast for Thoreau and his causes. The Concord Saunterer, New Series, 9 (2001) pp. 140-45 [free at jstor, click "Preview" or "Read Online"].

Wilson, Leslie Perrin; and Robert N. Hudspeth. "Reconstructing Thoreau's World." On the earliest sources of biographical material on Thoreau, including Ellery Channing, Alfred Winslow Hosmer, and Edward Waldo Emerson, and the growth of interest in Thoreau and his Concord landscape in the twentieth century. The Thoreau Society Bulletin, 259 (Summer 2007) pp. 1-3 [free at jstor, click "Preview" or "Read Online"].

Marx, Steven. "The Struggle Over Thoreau."NY Review of Books 24 June 1999 [first page only]. Also Buell, Laurence. In response to "The Struggle Over Thoreau." With a further reply by Leo Marx. NY Review of Books, 2 Dec., 1999. A debate between two important literary critics about the environmental movement and literature.